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    446 results for "story":

    • Integrating science, message, and design
      ...ciences, rhetoric, art, psychology, public administration, publishing, and digital technology - each with its own rich history and strikingly different culture. We reach optimistically across the divide between research and practice, hoping to shi...
    • Integration and Application Network in 2015: The year in review
      ...er 88,000 people have downloaded the symbol library to date. IAN staff released two new websites in 2015: Chesapeake Bay Story and EcoHealth report cards . Three apps were also produced in 2015: How's the Beach? (South Carolina beach water quality...
    • Integration and Application Network retreat: June 2014
      ...editing, computer coding), graphic design skills (e.g., Adobe creative suite, photography, video production, web design, story boarding), stakeholder engagement skills (e.g., developing and maintaining collaborations, workshop facilitation, social...
    • International Coastal Adaptation Perspectives
      ...tation priorities, as well as the options for addressing them. Special thanks to Dr. Jeff Ollerhead for the insightful history and context for our journey! Dr. Jeff Ollerhead providing an overview of flood control policy options at the Bay of Fund...
    • International RiverFoundation remarks
      ...the Riverprize journeys, I am going to select two stories that illustrate the paradigms shifts that can occur. The first story is the River Mersey restoration, illustrated by a poster that read "This is Manchester, not Venice". The River Mersey wa...
    • Invasive grasses pose a threat to natural and cultural resources in Kakadu National Park
      ...on Kakadu National Park floodplains, I am interviewing scientists to begin distilling the key messages for the synthesis story. These researchers are contributing to the developing picture of the connections between the floodplains, water movement...
    • Israelis working with Palestinians for ecosystem restoration
      ...es with environmental restoration efforts that have served to unite, rather than divide people in the region. There is a story that I want to share that may provide some hope in this bleakest of times. When I was based in Australia, we created the...
    • It’s a Political World…Even in Nature
      ...gh the field of political ecology is only about 40 years old 3 , the concepts can be applied to communities throughout history. Dr. Orr took us on a journey back in time through U.S. history, to the period before European settlement when Native Am...
    • It’s game time! Board games that can help people ‘level up’ their capacity for transdisciplinary work
    • It’s the Circle of Science: How to Move Your Audience
      ...lization , maps , photography and videography , it’s time to bring all those pieces together to present a complete story. There are many different platforms that can be used to tell the story of your research, including presentations, poster...
    • It’s Your Time: Make It Count
      ...nning out of time, but with the right prompt you can avoid those situations. You are setting the stage to help tell your story. Your poster or PowerPoint should be doing your legwork, while you focus on any extra material. There are some tips and...
    • Jamie's Australian Adventures
      ...y assignment was to assist IRF with the production of a short documentary detailing their organization’s 20-year history, to be shown at this year’s annual Riversymposium in Brisbane, Australia. International River Foundation Logo Afte...
    • Jane Thomas, Science Communicator Extraordinaire, heading Down Under
      ... diving with sharks and in caves and snorkeling in Jellyfish Lake . We enjoyed the Palauan culture, with the Micronesian storyboards serving as the original conceptual diagrams. We also traveled to Bangkok , Thailand to teach a Science Communicati...
    • John Bertram's legacy
      ... head of the department administrative officer, John was the first person I told, because I knew that he would enjoy the story so much. I also enjoyed watching John with his son Julian when John would bring him along at the end of the day. I loved...
    • Joining Chesapeake Bay Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee
      ...n various parts of the world. Thus I bring a fresh perspective, but without a deep appreciation of Chesapeake Bay STAC history and dynamics. There are some important elements of what I consider a successful STAC: 1) strong and committed leadership...
    • Journalists and scientists: Forever at odds, or a perfect pairing?
      ...vya Pradhan Ask a scientist, and they might tell you that journalists are more interested in selling news than getting a story right, are overly concerned with conflict and scientific outliers, and will miss the point or twist information to fit a...
    • Journey Through the City
      ... is on elevated land, not exposed to high water and flooding (right). Photos by Ashley C. Silver. Also, links to the backstory of the mural and statue of Harriet Tubman: http://sbynews.blogspot.com/2019/05/mural-artist-selected-for-church.html htt...
    • Ken Barton Sails Into Retirement
      ...s spark his memory Some happy, some sad He thinks of IAN friends and the dreams we had IAN lived happily forever, so the story goes But somehow IAN missed out on that pot of gold But we’ll try best that we can to carry on A gathering of ange...
    • Kick off workshop for Western Lake Erie report card project
    • Kiss me, I'm a scientist
      ...ts are not robots— we are people, too. Like every other human, each scientist was raised in a specific moment of history, in a specific country, in a specific culture, and this socio-cultural context influences our way of thinking and behavi...
    • Labor Unions and Environmental Justice
      ...CC BY-NC 2.0 . Unions in the United States The struggle for workers' rights across industry and agriculture has a long history in the United States. Immigrants , women , Black people , Indigenous people , and other people of color have always been...
    • Laguna de Bay, Philippines: Environmental Literacy
      ...ent, population growth, and industrialization are a major threat to Laguna de Bay. The Laguna de Bay region is rich in history, natural beauty, and biodiversity. The Laguna de Bay region is managed through the Laguna Lake Development Authority (LL...
    • Large Marine Ecosystems – An Australian in Paris
      ...o behold. This was followed by a tour of the artwork in the building including “ The Fall of Icarus ”, a two story sized painting by Picasso , and “ Walking Man” by Giacometti worth an estimated £60 million! We also w...
    • Last but not least... Now that you know, it's time to work!
      ... improve future grades, carefully plan resource use (financial and human), and remember the importance of telling a good story . Irina shared her plans for improving her report card process for future publications, using lessons learned during the...
    • Launching Ricky Into Space
      ...r.com/c/cnemazie/). Ricky Arnold began his scientific career plumbing the depths of Chesapeake Bay to construct a paleohistory of aquatic grasses, and published his results in an international peer reviewed scientific journal ( Journal of Coastal...